Comments on: NVIDIA disables PhysX support when ATI GPU is installed

By: bbbl67

bbbl67 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:22:46 +0000

With the way the new Radeon 5800 series seem to be performing, you probably don’t even need a “business reason” to go with it.

By: Notneeded

Notneeded — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:44:40 +0000

I currently use an ATI 4830, but I also have an 8800GS. You can be sure my next card will be an AMD. You might say I am disabling NVIDIA for “business reasons.”

By: bbbl67

bbbl67 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:31:56 +0000

Hey, let’s say you have bought a motherboard with an integrated chipset from ATI? You then decide you want to upgrade the video and buy an Nvidia video card? Now you still have an ATI GPU onboard the chipset, but it’s not being used anymore since you now have an Nvidia video card. Will this mean that Nvidia will still turn off physics due to the little integrated non-Nvidia GPU that still there? This is possibly a class-action suit waiting to happen.

By: Justin Thompson

Justin Thompson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:38:36 +0000

Nope, I don’t really understand. If you had just told me it wouldn’t work that way I probably would have, but It really just sounds like illegal business tactics to me. To disable portion of your product because one is also using a competitors product instead of another product of your own. That’s shady.